America will never solve its gun problem until it gets over its fetish for the Founding Fathers.

[krispos42]

40. I've proposed a solution to this on here before.

Simply limit the ratio of representatives to senators to no more than 6:1.

After every census, if a state is found to get more than 12 representatives, it has until the next census to divide itself up equally into smaller states until each has 12 or less representatives. And the numbers must be as equal as possible, so the biggest new state can only have 1 more representative than the smallest new state.

Initially, it would add about 17 states to the union... 17 chances to have the most modern political theories put into state constitutions! Instant runoff voting, for example.

Then, as the states grew in population, we'd gradually add more states as older states split up.


There would still be a mechanism to keep bigger states from bullying smaller states, but it would keep the wild, 80:1 disparity that is California to Wyoming from happening.